Comments on: a glacier is a very long event

By: unusual flood typologies ii: scabland – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Fri, 27 May 2011 11:01:53 +0000

[...] barren, rocky valleys. Mammoth looked at that event, the Missoula Floods, in a post last year, "a glacier is a very long event". (You'll want to scroll down to "Jokulhlaups".) We might add that, if contemporary land use [...]

By: On Ash Clouds and Snow Storms « dpr-barcelona

On Ash Clouds and Snow Storms « dpr-barcelona — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:51:21 +0000

[...] us the Glacier/Island/Storm studio at Columbia GSAPP by Geoff Manaugh. As Rob Holmes pointed on mammoth: A possibility: glaciers, islands, and storms are as much events as they are objects; as events, [...]

By: “anchors in a mutable field” – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:41:30 +0000

[...] competition, “Dynamic Coalition” (which mammoth described and discussed previously, near the middle of this post, which is concerned with larger questions of stability in design), as an example of a project that [...]

By: Research Web Reader » Artificial Glaciers 101

Research Web Reader » Artificial Glaciers 101 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:59:37 +0000

[...] all, glaciers are very long events, as mammoth memorably put [...]

By: Research Web Reader » Artificial Glaciers 101

Research Web Reader » Artificial Glaciers 101 — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:08:53 +0000

[...] self-sustaining, tectonically complex structures of ice into motion. After all, glaciers are very long events, as mammoth memorably put it. [Image: From Wired Science's photo gallery, "Stunning Views of [...]

By: Craters as other form of architecture [Alles Ist Architektur] « dpr-barcelona

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:44:32 +0000

[...] talk, they would be able to tell the story of the events that formed them. Our friends from mammoth recently wrote that a glacier is a very long event, an making a paraphrasis we can also say that a crater is also [...]

By: Worlds3E Research Public Sphere News » Artificial Glaciers 101

Worlds3E Research Public Sphere News » Artificial Glaciers 101 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:27:31 +0000

By: “blooming landscape, deep surface” - mammoth island storm // building nothing out of something

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:35:54 +0000

[...] “Geofluidic Landscape” (and even the Galapagos salt mine project which mammoth described earlier this week), the museum suggests a serious and near-total integration of building and [...]

By: translation, machines, and embassies - mammoth island storm // building nothing out of something

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:02:00 +0000

[...] has already suggested that glaciers, islands and storms may be understood as events; but another way to read these events [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:10:22 +0000

Agree with all the above, but I would also note that the building doesn’t necessarily need to move along with the glacier to embrace its kinetic properties. A simplistic example of this kind of thinking would be a structure built on ‘solid’ ground near the glacier with, say, cor-ten steel and a path for building runoff which empties over the glacier, creating a trail of reddish orange on the surface of the glacier measuring its progress (and probably a whole lot more – the fading of the tail of the reddish stain could show mixing of glacier ice, it’s width a metric of the amount of runoff over the structure, caused by the local climate, etc). It’s just a bit of steel and some topographic massaging, but is nonetheless intimately tied to contextual flux.

By: Nicole Seekely

Nicole Seekely — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:14:21 +0000

sorry, the link didn’t post:

taking glacier surfing quite literally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKRR9RMmcIQ

By: Nicole Seekely

Nicole Seekely — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:11:03 +0000

taking glacier surfing quite literally

I think the strongest building design (metaphorically speaking, but perhaps structurally too), could be one that indeed shifted with the forces of a natural occurrence. That’s where architecture falls apart – when it cannot adapt to the forces around it, as mentioned before with earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tides, etc.

It’s an exciting thought to think of a piece of architecture that could not only influence these natural processes but adapt to them as well, creating a symbiotic relationship.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:51:31 +0000

…the great thing about the word is what it implies for the building — that it would be literally unstable, but dynamically stable; that it would constantly be compensating for shifting forces; that it would need to be intelligent, at least in a structural sense.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:43:59 +0000

“Surfing” is exactly the other word which I nearly used…

By: Greg J. Smith

Greg J. Smith — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:41:47 +0000

I love the structure “riding/surfing” the glacier idea. That seems like it could be worth pursuing.